10 Canoes Trailer

10 Canoes promises to be about as far from Rolf De Heer's previous "Bad Boy Bubby" as one can get. Here he is working with an Aboriginal Community in the Northern Territory of Australia, filming on location in the local language. The story is in the mode of oral story telling of an old Aboriginal legend. A concept which is reminiscent of Canada's "Atanarjuat", an Inuit made film which captures their own legends on celluloid.

One of the principle actors in 10 Canoes is the legendary David Gulpilil who was the star of Nicolas Roeg's Walkabout but has appeared in all facets of Aussie cinema, from last years The Proposition to Rabbit Proof Fence to Crocodile Dundee to Peter Weir's The Last Wave. From the films tagline "Ten canoes, three wives, one hundred and fifty spears...trouble" the impression that things are going to be entertaining as well as a glance at Aboriginal culture from the inside.

Curiously, the official site has not posted a trailer, and while there is one buried behind some commercials on Yahoo's Austrailia site, we've video-grabbed it and are hosting it here. The film makes its North American debut at Telluride and is also screening at this years Toronto Film Festival (TIFF catalogue page).

10 Canoes Trailer (Downloadable Windows Media)
10 Canoes Trailer (Embedded in Yahoo.au, with commercials)